Bengaluru: Situation in Shivamogga district of Karnataka continued to be tense Tuesday amid prohibitory orders following the murder of a 28-year-old Bajrag Dal activist. Reserve forces have been called in and senior police officers are stationed in the district to monitor the situation. The prohibitory...
Shivamogga (Karnataka): Three persons have been arrested in the case of the murder of the 28-year-old Bajrang Dal activist Harsha, police said Monday. Efforts are on to nab the rest of the suspects involved in the murder in this district headquarters town. The town witnessed...
Moscow: If there are no more major Covid outbreaks after Omicron, the pandemic may see an end in 2022, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Representative in Russia has said. However, it does not mean that the virus will vanish completely, Melita Vujnovic was quoted as...
Bangalore: The Karnataka government reiterated Monday that hijab is not an essential religious practice. It also asserted that religious instructions should be kept outside the educational institutions. “This is our stand that hijab is not an essential religious practice. There was a statement by Dr...
Bengaluru: A three-judge panel of Karnataka High Court, formed to look into the petitions on hijab row, resumed hearing Monday afternoon. Even as the bench headed by the Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi is hearing the matter on a day-to-today basis, the hijab crisis continues...
Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Industries and Information Technology Minister Mekapati Goutham Reddy has died of heart attack in Hyderabad in the early hours of Monday, a close aide said. He was 50 and is survived by wife, a daughter and a son. Goutham Reddy returned to...
Bhubaneswar: The third phase of Panchayat elections in Odisha for 171 Zilla Parishad zones was held Sunday. Barring a few booths of Jajpur district, polling was smooth in the state, Secretary to State Election Commission (SEC), RN Sahu said. An average 45 per cent voter turnout...
Bengaluru: At least 58 female students from a college in Karnataka's Shivamogga district were suspended Saturday for wearing hijab and also staging an agitation demanding that they should be allowed to attend classes. The students were from Government Pre-University College of Shiralakoppa. Although the college...
Los Angeles: Brad Pitt is suing Angelina Jolie for selling her share of the French vineyard where they got married. Superstars Pitt and Jolie, who were once Hollywood's highest profile couple, bought a controlling stake of Chateau Miraval in southern France in 2008, and tied the...
Bhubaneswar: Barring a few incidents of violence, the second phase of panchayat elections went off smoothly Friday in Odisha with about 71 per cent polling. A total of 62.10 lakh voters were eligible to vote in the second phase. However, the polling percentage may go...
The Director General of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Shatrujeet Kapur’s remark on 22 October that Indian and Chinese forces are...
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United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s second visit to India has ruffled quite a few feathers in New Delhi....
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